Meet Jessica/Teresa Damschen/Richey

We recently connected with Jessica/Teresa Damschen/Richey and have shared our conversation below.

Jessica/Teresa, thanks so much for taking the time to share your insights and lessons with us today. We’re particularly interested in hearing about how you became such a resilient person. Where do you get your resilience from?

Our family and especially each other. When one of us is struggling the other usually knows exactly what to say to pick the other up.

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?

We started this podcast as a way to communicate and reach other people who are going through a similar journey. We love listening to mothers and knowing we’re not alone and we wanted to create that for someone else. We’ve always been the weird kids, so we wanted to create a safe place for anyone else who felt that way. We are going to have merch and items for sale that best represent us and what we believe in and love. Our first product, is actually a peanut cluster that I make from home and sell. They’re the first step to what can hopefully be a very fruitful adventure.

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?

Keep going. I know it’s sounds like the worst advice and so common and backs but it’s true. It’s common’s and basic because it’s the most important thing. You CANNOT give up. You have to keep going no matter how you feel about. If you’re not getting what you want when you thought you should have it. There’s a reason. Just keep working and try to see what you have rather than what you don’t. And DO NOT under any circumstances COMPARE yourself to anyone else. You are the only you there is. There’s no comparison. We’re all people who have something to give.

Before we go, maybe you can tell us a bit about your parents and what you feel was the most impactful thing they did for you?

This is going to sound awful. But the most impactful thing they did that became a very positive force, was there death. We’d never be where we were if our parents were still here. We love them so much and miss them everyday, but the reality is that they weren’t given the tools to improve their own lives so there was no hope for ours unless we did it ourselves. And by them leaving us we were able to do that. We got sober and got projects started that we’d been talking about for years. And we’re very grateful to them for that.

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